What are we reading?

Captain of Industry · May 12, 2010, 12:31:00 AM

Quote from: Reelist on May 11, 2010, 07:41:12 PM
Idk wtf you guys are talking about. Like I said earlier its answering a lot of questions for me

I for one am talking about like a twenty minute skim in a Borders book store. I'm not at all trying to debate the merits of a book I've only speculated to be bullshit, and what I mean is, please, tell me what's badass and what questions it's answering for you because I'm all ears.

I Love a Magician · May 23, 2010, 12:25:43 AM

almost finished with

and it's fucking great

with this next

Derek · May 26, 2010, 10:19:24 PM

Just finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I read that the original Swedish title is something like 'Men Who Hate Women'...probably not as commercial over here. It was good, I didn't quite get what all the fuss is about as it did seem a bit predictable and rushed near the end. Some long and redundant stretches in the mid-section of the book. I haven't seen the movie, but I think it would seem to be a cross between Insomnia and The Silence of the Lambs. I kind of hope Fincher doesn't remake this and turns his attentions to something else.

Pubrick · May 26, 2010, 10:28:26 PM

Quote from: I Love a Magician on May 23, 2010, 12:25:43 AM

that cover is gross. you can still see a fleshy pink bit in the bottom picture even tho her eye is closed.

they should've called it "in the blink of a STYE"

The Perineum Falcon · May 27, 2010, 07:49:06 AM

(the actual cover's not as sickly green as this)

Fucking excellent (so far).

Gamblour. · June 29, 2010, 10:46:33 AM

Anyone read this? I'm about 100 pages in. It's so well written and compelling that I've been really enjoying it, but at a snail's pace. I'm not a fast reader. It's a great portrait of Adams, and a damn good historical perspective.

modage · July 23, 2010, 10:07:27 PM

I'm hooked.

SiliasRuby · July 23, 2010, 11:05:18 PM

About to start this...

cronopio 2 · July 25, 2010, 05:48:21 PM

my grandmother's on treatment these days and i read about it and got curious. fuck cancer.

pete · July 25, 2010, 05:58:28 PM

reading a few things simultaneously.
been writing crime films and doing a lot of real-life research, which is almost more fun than writing. and the books help me talk to them in a reasonably informed manner.

it's about CIA's war against pablo escobar. I heard it's turning into a film soon too.

about FBI's first and only undercover agent handling stolen art and treasures.

ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ · July 26, 2010, 04:07:15 PM

Quote from: cronopio 2 on July 25, 2010, 05:48:21 PM

I'll be honest, I wasn't positive that he was in fact human.

Now I know.

MacGuffin · September 03, 2010, 05:28:26 PM

Pedro · September 05, 2010, 03:37:48 PM

Class:

It's very good. Indebted to Kierkegaard, but since Kierkegaard never wrote a novel, The Moviegoer it's as close as we can get. A lovely meditation on Southern mores, the quest for meaning, and the movies.

Fun:

Perhaps the ugliest cover I have ever seen. The Corrections got me started on serious fiction again, so I'm looking forward to this. Anyone else going to read it?

jtm · September 17, 2010, 12:02:27 AM

Del James- The Language of Fear.

read this when i was 16 and just started re-reading it.

great collection of short stories.

polkablues · September 17, 2010, 12:12:56 AM

Quote from: Pedro the Alpaca on September 05, 2010, 03:37:48 PM
Perhaps the ugliest cover I have ever seen. The Corrections got me started on serious fiction again, so I'm looking forward to this. Anyone else going to read it?

The Corrections felt like reading a smart, precocious kid emulating his favorite writers. I didn't get much out of it. I'll give Franzen another chance, though; he could have some good novels in him once he grows up.